Six Jewish settlers who mistook under cover Israeli cops for Palestinians attacked them Thursday, throwing stones and damaging a police under cover vehicle, Haaretz reported Saturday after a court ruling on the incident came out Friday. The settlers also tried to run the disguised police over near an illegal Jewish outpost in the West Bank." [Forts.]

The Yesha Council (a umbrella body of Israeli settlements) has praised Benyamin Netanyahu's new right-wing cabinet in Israel, stating that "[t]he prime minister and other members of his government have stated in the past that no settlement will be uprooted and that the settlement movement in Judea and Samaria [West Bank] will be renewed, ... If that should be the case that his government will be able to take important steps for Israel."